Thoroughly enjoy your videos - thanks for them,. I will be purchasing a Synology NAS to use as a home video server, data storage of documents and photos and as a personal cloud to share drone videos from my DJI Mini 3 Pro in 4K with family and friends. I am considering the DS1520+ or DS1522+. The primary difference I see for my usage is the 20+ uses Intel with imbedded graphics and the 22+ uses AMD without embedded graphics. At this time, I can purchase either the 20+ or 22+ for the same amount. I would appreciate any opinion you can give regarding a best fit for my purposes. Thank you very much……..Keith

I have a Synology DS1621xs with extra RAM and 2 SSDs for cache.. I want to turn the server off to add an UPS for safety because of a lot of lightning in my area in fall. The server says I can loose data if I do not do something to (remove?) the SSDs. I do not understand:
I try to shut off via the web page when the notice is coming, so I do not dare to continue. The server restarts when up-dating, so what is the problem with shutting down?
Some advice is very much appreciated!

Hi, I am looking for a NAS server for my home. The usage would be to offload photos and videos on Google Photos to a local server. Additionally, I would like to potentially add movies to this device and possibly store PC games that could be played over the network on this device.

I can't find any definitive answers on this, but if a NAS like a ds218+ with no drives are sold do they keep any information on previous configurations, and is it safe to sell without drives? Do I need to do anything for protection?

We conversed last year but I'm now ready to take the leap and buy a new NAS. I have seen a synology 5 Bay enclosure second hand for £300 and watch your video on the new Seagate 18TB drives. Would these work on a older Synology DiskStation DS1515+ NAS (2GB Ram) 5 Bay Diskless. Or can you recommend a second hand site to trawl. Or should I just go with a new enclosure unit.

Hello. I’m a photographer that does a lot of mixed shooting. Video sometimes hoping to do more. I photograph mostly real estate but I photograph anything and everything. I shoot 5 days a week and every shoot is 20-60 gb. I have 8tb internally on my MacBook Pro. Which has been fine for a few months but I’m getting near the end already. I shoot on a Sony a7Riv which is 61megapixels and about 140mb per photo and I shoot 5 shot brackets for one grouping. Anyway, I’d like to keep everything and possibly edit off the drive/nas if need be. I’ve looked at Synology and QNAP. I’ve looked at building my own. I’m intrigued by QNAP because of the photography software and caching on different tiers. I’ve never done NAS before but I’m trying to learn and there’s just so many options. I’d really appreciate your help. Thanks.

Bought ds920+ in offer . Now what's the recommendation to buy hdd. Go for 5400 4tbs or 7200 4tbs. And why choose faster over slower. Later I can small ssd to boost performance.

Hey, a friend of mine got me their old Core 2 Quad (4c/4t from '08) tower and I'm gonna try making a NAS out of it, what surveillance brand would you recommend me getting for an open-source enthusiast? And should I spend another hundred bucks on a surveillance-specific drive if I only want the cameras to record whenever there is a movement?

If you know some open-source utilities that can manage surveillance cameras and offer a web-ui and let you have a mobile application you can connect to your server, that'd be wonderful, thanks!

Hi,

I found your video on 1522 v 1520. I am looking for a Drobo 5D replacement as I am worried with Drobo being in chapter 11 and Apple dropping KEXT support it won’t work in MacOS Ventura.

I have the 5D in 2 disk failure option with 5x 3GB drives. Synology tells me my drives are not on the supported list. Oh well. At the moment I run Plex from my M1 iMac. If I could move it to the NAS I would consider it. You video seemed to suggest the 1522 would not be a good Plex server.

I would also be happy to go direct storage, but don’t want to fall into the same trap again with software. I looked at OWC, but they want to use SoftRaid and that seems like the 2000s. I would be interested in your advice.

All in all the 1522 would just be extra storage with resilience holding my video files. I will be editing those files via iMovie.

Hi, I am looking to buy a NAS, and here are few of my purposes. First, to storage some vlog from my trip. Second VPN server. Third, cloud computing. My requirement is this NAS has built in 10gbe connection or support 10gbe expansion, and with/support M.2 NVME SSD cache. My main target for right now is TS-473A and TVS-472XT. But my question is both of these two NAS's CPU is a little bit too old for me. Just wanna ask is it possible for either QNAP or Synology will introduce some new NAS with more powerful CPU(To be precise I mean AMD V2000 or V3000 series CPU) in rest of this year?